Retaining the Formatting and Layout of Your PDF Documents in MS Word.
Love the look of PDFs but hate how difficult it is to retrieve information and make edits or changes to PDF documents? Well, you are not alone and the problem is actually bigger than you might think. Productivity is reduced and time is wasted as thousands of consumers and businesses alike wrestle with this limitation of the Portable Document Format.
When a document is converted to PDF, all of the structure of that underlying document is lost. Thus, while it may look like an MS Word document in PDF, its underlying structure is now really that of a PDF. It is this reason why these documents cannot simply cut and paste from PDF to another format.
To complicate matters even further, PDFs can be created in two ways - as native PDFs or as Image (Scanned) PDFs. Native PDFs are created through the use of a computer application such as a PDF creator. Text and images from these natively created PDFs can be cut and paste into different formats. Image PDFs are created using a scanner and are essentially one big image. The only way in which to get access to image PDFs is through the use of sophisticated technology (called optical character recognition (OCR)) that can interpret the image and then extract the textual information.
As you may know, there is a text selection tool within Adobe Acrobat Reader that you can use to cut and paste the text from the PDF into another application. While this is helpful for extracting a line of text or a paragraph, it is not helpful if for users who actually want to recover the look and feel of the document (graphics and text included) and make edits to the original document.
Fortunately, there is software available that lets users take their PDFs and transport them into the easily editable MS Word format. Investintech, publisher of the powerful Able2Extract 3.0 has created a conversion utility that essentially reconstructs the PDF document in the MS Word format. As a result, graphics, layout, formatting and even fonts are retained. Users can convert whole PDF documents into MS Word documents and then revise them as needed. In most cases, the graphics of the PDF file are also transported into MS Word.
For those who need to take it a step further, Investintech has included OCR technology in its Professional line of PDF conversion software, which enables text from image and scanned PDFs to be converted into MS Word documents. This is a useful feature for those who have paper based documents (for which no electronic record exists) that need editing. With OCR technology, these documents can be scanned and saved as a PDF and then converted to MS Word.
If you'd like to try this software, Investintech offers a no obligation free trial of Able2Extract 3.0 & Able2Extract Professional PDF Converter on its website at http://www.investintech.com
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